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You'd be amazed athow some property winds up at the firehouse...By the way, how come I had a fire in the kitchen on the ground floor and fireman were checking my bedroom bureau on the second floor...And just how did the jewelry wind up missing?

Why do you think firefighters have those very large coats and mighty large boots? Ask friends you have who worked at ground zero (not NYPD who aren't much better) I'm talking about construction people and heavy machinary operators. The things we saw the FDNY doing as they were working the pile made us sicker than the poisons we were inhaling.

I remember when a Civil War (I think) cannon was stolen from the lawn of the Richmond Hill library about a decade ago. They had to lift it over a 3 foot brick wall to remove it from the premises. Hardly seems worth it for the effort.

Though many firemen are crooks I think we should look the other way and not get on their case about it. They risk their lives saving us, giving them the right to rip us off, on occasion, so long as they don't get carried away with it, e.g. not only stealing jewelry, but our wives too. Then they'd be asking for it!

Yep, a jest.Do have some mixed feelings though. Firemen put their lives on the line for us. This doesn't excuse them stealing, of course, but it does make one reluctant to call them outright SOB's for it, which may be why thefts by them go unprosecuted, unless they completly go over the line like the ones who turned their firehouse into a house of ill repute.

The problem is with the churches themselves. Who would be stupid enough to put something like this outside with no protection.

I recall several years ago when a syagogue put a cornerstone on the sidewalk because they could not think of what to do with it.

Churches, by and large, reflect the cultural brain-dead landscape of the borough. The distruction of these buildings, and the lack of iniative to make them vibrant institutions is reflected only by the moribund political landscape of the borough.

When you try to talk sense to parishiners, they get glassy eyed and say 'God will provide.'

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